Rotary club members are business and professional leader who volunteer in their communities and promote World understanding and peace. Rotary’s 31,000 clubs in more than 165 countries and regions encourage high ethical standards and carry out humanitarian projects to address such issues as poverty, health, hunger, education, and the environment.
Through more than US$95 million in Rotary Foundation grants each year, Rotary clubs support community projects at home and abroad, known as the world’s largest private provider of international education scholarships. The Rotary Foundation funds more than 1,000 students annually to study overseas and act as cultural ambassadors. Rotary also partners with eight presitigious universities around the globe to educate midcareer professionals in peace and conflict resolution. Polio plus is Rotary’s flagship program. Rotary club members have so for contributed US$600 million and countless volunteer hours to help immunize over two billion children against polio. Spearheading partners in the Global Polio Eradication initiative include the World Health Organisation, U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, and UNICEF. Rotary International founded in Chicago in 1905 as the World’s first volunteer service organisation quickly expanded around globe. Clubs meet weekly for fellowship to discuss local and global topics, clubs are nonreligious, nongovernmental, and open to every race, culture, and creed.
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and by dignifying each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serves society.
The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life.
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Rotarians gain recognition for themselves and their business or profession by participating in an organisation dedicated to an ideal of service.
Rotarians acquire friendly contacts and a warm welcome in every important city in the world. As one Rotarian exclaimed. “On the day I joined Rotary, I acquired 1.2 million friends!”
Above all, Rotary offers the opportunity to serve and give back to the local and world community.
“He profits most who serves best” was the first motto of Rotary International, approved at the second Rotary Convention in August of 1911. This and “Service above Self” were the official motto of Rotary until 1989, when “Service above Self” was established as the principal motto of Rotary.
Based on the Object of Rotary, the Four Avenues of Service are Rotary’s Philosophical Cornerstone and the foundation on which club activity is based;
Club service focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.
Vocational service encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocation and to practice high ethical standards.
Community service covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.
International service encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace.
1. Is it the TRUTH?
2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIP?
4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
“Many Rotarians have questioned the relevancy of The 4-Way Test in today’s challenging business climate. Yet these four simple questions have withstood the test of time in serving as a moral compass for Rotarians throughout the decades. Today more than ever, it is imperative business and personal lives. It is not enough that we recite the 4-Way Test; We must actually live it. We must show the world that Rotary is relevant and acts with integrity”.
Wear your emblem and stand out in crowd. This signifies Dedication to the cause of Service. This helps a fellow Rotarian to spot you out from the crowd, Being Members of the same fraternity around the world.
O God’ Bless us all, meeting here with good acquaintance, peace, goodwill and fellowship thro’ the motto of, service above self.
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